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Hour examinations would of necessity be a spur to the habitual loafer, and would certainly raise the standard of college work at large...
...secured. Communications and an occasional editorial written on a topic of live interest and front page articles on athletics or other subjects of interest, will be ample tests of a man's abilities. The freedom and openness of the competition, far from deterring men from writing ought to spur them on to do their best work. The magaging editor of the CRIMSON will be glad to receive all communications and to furnish all further information necessary...
Lastly, a certain amount of credit is due to the present senior class. Eighty-six has an unusually large number of men of good literary ability. The example of these men has been a spur, not only to their classmates, but to lower classmen. They have both improved the already existing college papers, and have founded the Monthly, a magazine of uncommon worth. On the whole, it looks as if the present time would figure in tradition, as have those years in the seventies, when the Lampoon was founded...
...functions of citizenship. Nearly all, it may be said, have an appreciation of the responsibilities which are to rest upon them as educated men. Perhaps there is no necessity for urging the Harvard student to turn his course of study into these channels. It may be that no sharper spur is needed to drive him on to the performance of a duty which must not be shirked. Yet we may learn a sombre lesson from the clipping from the Boston Globe which we print on the first page...
...nine were near-sighted, the fielders used crutches, and the rest had never seen a first base, we should still say : "Our victorious athletes left last night to wipe up Harvard, on her own grounds, this afternoon. There will be need of a crowd to spur them on, the Yale nine will not be allowed more than six runs apiece, and we long for a foeman worthy our steel." etc. There's nothing like "hoping for the best" and scattering it all around for the benefit of the disheartened. - [Yale Courant...